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Do you feel more at peace before or after a decision?

When something is looming in your life, do you stress out more in the process of making a decision, flip backwards and forwards between two or more options, weigh out all the pros and cons and still wonder if you should just go with your gut feel, ask a few trusted friends but then disregard all their advice until finally, finally, you squint your eyes, clench your fists, drum up all your courage and make a final choice?

Or do you come to a decision quickly and rapidly, but then spend hours, days, weeks agonising over whether or not you did the right thing, whether it's too late to change your mind, patch up the broken pieces, come up with a contingency plan for getting out of it in case it all goes down the tube and you wish you hadn't leapt before you thought?

Me? I think I'm better after a decision. Hence, I'm in a good mood, having recently (well, last 2 months) made decisions on where I live, where I work and where I go to church. It's a liberating feeling.